fREEMND TRIBUNE. ESTAHLISIL Kl> 1888 PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE; MAIN STREET ABOVI CENTRE, LONG DISTANCE TULEPIIOMB. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FREELAXD.— The TRIBUNE is delivered by Barriers to subscribers in Froeland at the rata of cents per month, payable every tw<\ months, or $1 50 % year, payable in advance- The TRIBUNE may bo ordered direct form tha carriers or from tho office. Complaints of Irregular or tardy delivery service will re. oeive prompt attention. BY MAIL —The TRIBUNE is sent to out-of town subscribers for $1.50 a year, payable in advance; pro rata terms for shorter periods. The date when the subscription expires is on the address label of each paper. Prompt re newals must be made at the expiration, other* ! wise the subscription will be discontinued. Entered at the I'ostoftloo at Frealand. as Second-Clasr Matter, Make all money orders, checks, ero. ,payabU to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. According to the State Entomolo gist of New Jersey, its native mos quito is a much maligned bird. Expositions are becoming so numer ous as to afford a constant means of diversion for people who have abund ant leisure. Kansas lias a compulsory school law, but the State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction asserts that of the 400,- 000 children of school age in the State 120,000 do not attend school. The credit men of the world are put ting funny marks opposite the name of the Sick Man of Turkey. He is so utterly bankrupt that if he were an or dinary merchant he would he closed out. Can the sea be fished out? Is a ques tion asked by the Chicago Inter-Ocean. There would have been no difficulty in answering the question if it had been phrased to read: Caa the sea be fished in? A large number of people have come to feel that nothing extraordinary is occurring in the Southern Republics so long as the lighting continues. A peace proclamation might cause a rip ple of excitement. Torpedo tubes set in the sides and hows of battleships and cruisers above the water line have been declared worthless by the British Admiralty, and they have all been ordered taken out. Ouly the above-water torpedo tubes set in the stern will be retained. The importance of roads for military and commercial purposes was early recognized in the United States, and a great system, or rather, three great systems, were projected. One from New York through New England, an other west through Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois and another through the South. Tho Lincoln Park Commissioners of Chicago have authorized the erection in the park of a monument in memory of David Kennisou, who is declared to have been the only soldier of the Revo lution who went from Illinois, returned to Illinois, and lies buried in Illinois— in fact, in that park. A boulder, prop erly inscribed, will probably be placed over his grave. The Sons of the Revo lution will bear the cost. Some classes of wood appear to ho even more durable than iron. Sections of old water pipes of cypress that had been under ground and in use for near ly a century were recently exhumed at New Orleans, La., and to the surprise of all the wood was perfectly pre served and as hard as when laid. They were part of the first water works of the city, and it is thought tho wood was from trees 100 years old when laid. Interest Is added to the anti-mos quito war in Hawaii by the possibility that the little pests spread leprosy as well as malaria. However, many scientists are pointing out that, if mos quitoes were responsible for the spread of leprosy, the disease would a ill let white residents in the same proportion with natives. A lack of sanitary pro cautions is the more probable cause of the communication of the disease among th* natives, who often eat out of the same dish, smoke the same pipe and wear one another's clothing. Too Mnch to Export. Farmer Swackhammer —I lost my wife yesterday. Farmer Pildecker— Fe! Bead? Swackhammer—Naw! Kun away with a lightnin'-rod ped dler! "Wall, .Tosh, T offer ye my sym pathy! I'm mighty sorry fer ye." "Yes: I never did have any lurk a losin" things. Why! I lost a yaller dog fourteen times before he stayed lost." —San Franciico Bulletin. REST SOMETIME. The torrent rushes with frenzied might The life we live and the race we run, To rest on the quiet plain; The gorrrow and doubts that rend, The avalanche roars in its downward Some day—the victory lost or won— flight, Will come to a quiet end; Then a century sleeps again. For mad the torrent and strong the wing, And fearful the headlong flight, The eagle that sweeps with a tireless wing Yet time the end of the day will bring, O'er the dome of a brassy sky, And after the day—the night. At last must droop to the pines that cling —Lowell O. Reese, in fcjan Francisco Bui- To the crest of the mountain high. lccin. "T~ ANNOGA, an Indian boy of I the tribe of the Coeur [ \ d'Alenes, was sitting one evening with Aakloo, his lit tle sister, at the edge of the forest on the shore of Coenr d'Alene lake, and was telling her a favorite story, when at one of her interruptions he laughed and leaned carelessly back and looked straight into the eyes of a cougar. "If I were drowning you would swim out into a great lake, too, like Grand father Gray Beaver did, wouldn't you?" the girl asked. She spoke Indig nantly, for that day she had heard an old man say that boys like Ivnnuoga, who went to school In the reservation instead of into the forest, could never be bravo Indians, and she was sure that her brother was very brave. It was her show of indignation and her eager confidence thnt caused him to laugh now and to lean back. She waited, but ho did not answer. With both hands clasped over his copper-colored shin, and one bare foot raised slightly above the log on which ho was sitting, ho stared into the grent restless eyes that looked down at him from the nearest limb. He was with out a weapon of any kind, and the cou gar was full grown, with a body dry looking and gaunt with hunger. Although its glance was for the mo ment fixed on him he could see that It had been watching Aakoo and that Its interest was still centred in her, as if It had chosen her for Its victim. He was seized with sudden fear that she might move unexpectedly and thus cause the creature to spring upon her, yet he sat there seemingly unable to speak or to think what ought to be done. "You would, wouldn't you?" asked! the girl. Her voice broke the fascinat ing spell ef those terrible eyes. Ivan- y ml"h *\T ** 11 "HELD TJP niS HAND." noga know that she would turn in a moment to see why he had not an swered, and in order not to direct her attention to the panther ho lowered his glance and met hers. But there was something in his face that made her afraid, and lie looked with startling intcntnoss far beyond her. down the long, darkening stretch of deserted shore, toward the skin covered topee by the spring, where Mar-tain, their mother, and Sls-sos-ka, their father, lived during the hot sum mer. "Stand still!" said Kannogn, as calm ly as he could. It cost him a great ef fort to remain quietly there, without looking up, when he knew what was overhead, but the effort caused him to think more clearly. "Shut your eyes!" he said suddenly. "What for?" asked Aakloo, fright ened still more at the unaccountable change is his voice. For a moment his fingers tightened convulsively over ills shin, then grad ually relaxed and unclasped. He low ered Ills uprnised foot, moving it slow ly. very slowly, down beside the log. and when It rested firmly In the sand he reached cautiously forward anil caught the girl by the arm. "We shall play a new game," he said then, and the strange, eager suggestion of a smile that flashed over his face reassured her. "Oil!" she exclaimed, and at oneo shut her eyes. Knnnoga now looked steadily at the cougar, while he turned ills sister about so that she faced along the •here. "Walk as slowly as you can—with your eyes shut," lie said. She started slowly enough, but the fierce eyes overhead began to watch her intently again and to grow rest less, while a yellow foot advanced un easily along the limb and broad tawny jaws stretched farther and farther downward as she moved away. But Ivannoga silently held up his hand and waved it in the air. At this the panther's attention attracted by the unexpected and rapid movement, was withdrawn from the girl. "Go faster," said the boy; "go fast er." She was out of reach now; he could tell by the fainter sound of he. bare feet In the sand. "Run!" he called. "Open your eyes and run, but don't look back, and don't stop till you stand In the tepee with Mar-tain." "Is that all of the now game, Kan noga?" she asked, doubtfully. "No," ho answered; "there Is more." Meanwhile he still sat in the same place, watching the cougar and hold ing its attention by the constant move ment of his slender arm and of his grimy, tattered Sleeve. When Aakloo was at a safe distance the sense of his own danger catne sud denly upon him. If Sis-sos-kn would only come with his rifle—or Gray Beaver, an old man now, but still a great hunter. If he had only told Aakloo! He turned his head and looked after her. Down the winding track of sand beside the still lake, both grown a dull gray In the evening light, he saw her running, and he knew that long before she could reach the tepee he would be beyond the need of rescue. ne had turned his head for only an Instant, but in that instant the cougar had crept nearer and Its long tall had begun to swing slowly, stealthily, from side to side. Ivannoga saw no hope of escape, hut with every sense alert ho studied his desperate chances. The panther lay crouched with Its head toward tho forest, while he sat facing the lake. When ho had care fully measured tho space betweeu them aud tho distance to the water he jumped uwny from the log aud ran di rectly under tho panther. The animal Instantly shifted Its head, as If to leap down from the other side of tho limb, but the hoy dkl not appear there, and it turned with mar velous agility before its groat yellow body shot out Into the air. Kannoga was crushed down under its weight, but ho had reached the lake and fell where the water was nearly knee deep. He felt the panther release Its grasp into order to And firm footing, aud when he raised up for air discovered its dripping head little more than an arm's length from his own. I Then lie took a deep breath and lay down upon the bottom, hoping that the panther would leave him. I It stood there, however, watching j over him and waiting. I He started to crawl out from shore, ' but It seemed to him thnt he lind ! hardly mover when heavy claws sunk | Into his leg and dragged liiin back. ! Then, without letting go its hold, the panther Immediately shifted its pos!- I tlon and began to drag hltn out into shallower wafer. ' I-Ie made desv-rnte n"orfs to hold i fast to the lake bed. for he knew whnt the end would be If he reached the shore, but his fingers only plowed through the sand. The sharp point of a rock that tort him as he was dragged over It gave him hope; he grasped it with both hands and clung with all his strength, but in an instant his fingers were dig ging vainly In the sand again. At last he raised his head for air. The panther at once let go of his leg and came at him with open mouth, but it moved slowly in the water, and Kannoga, by a great effort, stood up. Then the beast sprung upon him. The boy had nerved himself, how ever, and fell as far out from shore as he could. When the feeling of dizziness that followed the shock had passed he found that the panther held his arm in its mouth and was swimming—that its feet did not touch bottom. Then, in spite of the terrible pnln It caused him, he pulled his arm down until the cougnr's head was sub merged. Very soon it released Its hold. Then the Indian boy stood up again, and this time he became the aggressor. Grasping the slick, wet head with both hands he forced it deep Into the water. The panther's feet touched bottom, and its violent struggles threw him down, but he got up again and held the glaring eyes and the red mouth with its white teeth more care fully—just under the surface of the lake. Ivannoga became very weak and his legs trembled feebly under him, but he was thankful that they were long, for he could stand with his hend in the cool evening breeze while the cougar was drowning. At first the panther made fearful sounds as the water filled Its lungs, but these presently censed, and at last It hung a dead weight in the boy's hands. lie let it sink then and loos ened a stone from the lake bed to roll upon its head. His wounds were slight, but painful, and the terrible battle had so weak ened him that when ho reached the shore he fell exhausted, with his face toward the tepee. lie could not see Aakloo now, nor even the canoe that came in a moment to where he lay. Gray Beaver and an old friend, pad dling out from camp, had called to the girl as she ran on the shore, and had laughed when she told them why she could not turn her head to look after them. Then they had seen the boy and the cougar in the edge of the lake, and their paddles had swung faster and with stronger strokes than they hud used for many a year. When Kannoga opened his eyes Gray Beaver leaned over him and spoke gen tly: "Aakloo will understand that game better when she is older," he said. And ncross a nan-owing stretch of water the boy saw her waiting with Mur-tnla. Robert W. McCulloch, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Fnrla Postnl Stories. Some Fnrls postal stories are going the rounds just now, says the Paris Messenger. One of them hns refer ence to a letter posted at a little coun try place In France to the Minister of Public Instruction, Taris. The sender did not put a stamp upon It, knowing that Government officials' letters are carried free. The provincial lady official, however, evidently not. knowing this, put a stamp upon the letter and sent the postman to collect the fifteen cen times from the sender, whose name by some mysterious means, the secret of which Is In the possession of her sex, she manage*! to discover. Another anecdote relates that a well-known Parisian lawyer sent a letter to M. Mlllerand and put a fifteen centime stamp on it, evidently forget ting that a stamp was unnecessary. Now, the letter was over weight, and the postoffice people, apparently think ing only of the stamp and not of the Minister's privilege, claimed thirty centimes excess. This, of course, M. Mlllerand declined to pay, and the let ter was sent hack. The unlucky send er was forced to take it back and pay the thirty centimes, making in all forty-five centimes out of his pocket, whereas had he put no stamp at all It would have been safely delivered. Sliuuu'ock and Clover. There has been a great deal of dis cussion as to whether the Irish sham rock of old times was the plant that is now known as the clover, many persons contending thnt it was the ox ulls acetoeelln, and that it could not have been the clover, because, they say, the last named plant was intro duced into Ireland from the Continent at a period subsequent to thnt when the shamrock was originally known and used. According to a correspond ent of the Gardeners' Chronicle, of London, who has made a painstaking search through all the literature of the subjoct, reaching back hundreds of years, the shamrock is clover, and nl wayu was clover, and nobody ever had any doubt 3 on the subject until they were raised by Mr. Eielieno, in 1830, who was Secretary of the L'.n naen Society. This ccareh, however, has shown that Mr. Bicheuo was wrong, and that the clover leaf, long before St. Patrick's time, was used as an emblem of tho Trinity. A Complicated Hunting Accident. An unusual accident occurred in the woct'.s at Stephenson. George Rich ardson shot a deer and the bullet ! passed through the animal and hit a ! tree. From there It glanced off and ' hit IV. Everhardt. It struck his wrist 1 aud hit the gun stock, from which it ! glanced off and entered the man's mouth, inflicting a serious wound.— i Milwaukee Daily News. FOLLitS OF EARLIER FASHIONS. Men Who Rtarchoil Their Heur<lß and Wore Shoes u Yuru Louie- It is a little gratifying to reflect that, however the man of to-day may com pare with Ills ancestors of bygone cen turies in physique or morals, his dress Is much more moderate and inexpen sive, even if it is less picturesque than theirs. It is true that here and there one may find some foolish young man whose taste in dress is as extravagant as that of any "buck" of the days of the Georges. There is, for instance, a son of a well known peer who has the reputation of never wearing a suit twice. He lias a wardrobe of waist coats of all the colors of the rainbow, ranging from a light blue spangled with silver stars to a deep green satin with buttons of eighteen karat gold, each of which is adorned with the painted face of a beautiful woman. Another wealthy aristocrat is cred ited with having as many suits and uniforms as there are days in the year, and with spending on his tailor's bill a sum which would pay the yearly salary of a minor cabinet minister. But such men are modestly arrayed, compared with the dandies of many a past century. The Earl of Northum berland. who lived in the latter part of the fourteenth century, boasted no fewer than sixty suits of cloth of gold alone, and the Bishop of Ely, of that time, had a change of raiment for ev ery day of the year. Much later, in Queen Mary's time, the wardrobe of a bishop might have been the envy of Solomon for the veriety and costli ness of its contents, and even a simple village priest, according to Fuller, wore "a vestment of crimson satin, a vest ment of crimson velvet, a stole and fanon set with pearl, gowns faced with taffetas," etc. In the days of Chaucer fashionable men wore clothes as mnny-colored as Joseph's coat, so that "while one leg would lie a blaze of crimson the other would be tricked out in green or blue or yellow, without any regard to har mony or contrast." Even as late as the middle of the eighteenth century a dandy would deck himself in "a vivid green coat, a waist coat of scarlet, yellow breeches and blue stockings," and the gentleman of a few years later wore, among similar sartorial vagaries, a coat of light green, with sleeves too small for the arms and buttons too big for the sleeves; a pair of Manchester fine stuff breech es, without money in their pockets, clouded silk stockings; a club of hair behind, larger tlina the head that car ries it, a hat of the size of a sixpence on a block not worth n farthing." At one fashionable epoch our an cestors, to quote the words of a quaint chronicler, ""would weare clothes so tighto to ye skin that it might well be conceived they wore no clothes at all;" and at another time they would wear them "so voluminous that a single suite might well have afforded rayment for a whole famlllie; and so stuffed out with feathers that, of a verity, their wearers resembled nothing so much as walking snekes." At another period it was the gro tesque fnsliion to combine on one per son the dress of all the countries of Europe; the liat would be Spanish, the coat French, the trousers Turkish, and so on; so that the wearer was a "walking epitome of the dress of a continent." At one time shoes would be worn with square toes of such width that a royal proclamation was issued limit ing the width to six inches, and these shoes were succeeded by others that came to the flnest of points at the toes. In Henry ll.'s time shoes with points two feet long were worn by the fash ionable, and In tlie reign of Henry IV. these points bad grown to sueli an in ordinate length Hint, in order to be able to walk at nil, it was necessary to attach t lie tips to the knees by chains, which were of gold or silver, while tlie tops of the shoes were ejfved with all kinds of fantastic designs. 11l tlie early part of the enghteenth century it was a common thing for n man of fashion to spend several bom's a day with ills valet; among the many quaint operations being "the starching of the beard and the proper perfuming of garments, the painting cf the face and anointing with oils, tinctures, quintessences, and poma tums." It is even said that some of the dandies of the time bathed in wine and milk, "for the preservation of their complexions anil the rejuvenation of their energies."—Tit-Bits. They Have Long Court Hill jis In Norway, Norwegian weddings nro almost al ways celebrated at tlie close of u short Scandinavian summer, a season which the industrious Norsemen ilud too short In which to work, and from which they would never dream of tak ing tlie days that nre necessary for the long-drawn-out festivities of the Norse wedding. So the maidens who are wooed all the year round are us ually wedded at the beginning of win ter. Norwegian woolugs are very frank and very long a-doiug. On sum mer Sundays the lanes, the highways and byways are uteem with lovers. Eaeb couple saunters slowly along, not in the least shy, his arm about lier shoulders, her arm about Ids waist. Nor do tliey untwine their arms if they pause a little to cliat with friends, not even if they stop to speak with casual acquaintances. Ten or a dozen years often elapse between the first day of courtship and the day of mar riage, while a seven-years' betrothal is considered of very moderate length. —Woman's Home Companion. The membership of fraternal organi zations in the United States and Can ada, according to a compilation of last reports, is o,Tiki,ol6. The Important Part of It. He said: "I'll write my name Upon the scroll of fame — The world's applause I'll clam In cycles yet to be." And as he turned to leave The lady plucked his sleeve: "How much will you receive For doing this?" said she. —Chicago Record-LeralcL Tils Diplomatic Keplj'. "Is a diplomat ever justified in using prevarication?" asked his friend. "Well," said the diplomat, "ho is cer tainly not justified in calling it by that name." —Puck. The Loss. J Harry—"Well, yes, I suppose I was " rather hasty in proposing to her, but the fact is, she looked so charming I lost my heart." Dick "You mean you lost your head."—Boston Transcript. Disclplinarj' Detail. no (desperately)—" You have ruined my life." A She (knowingly)—"Oh, no; my refu sal will only equip you to make some other girl a devoted aud deferential husband."—Detroit Free Press. His Explanation. "I am afraid," said a certain small boy's mother, "that you are overeat ing. Aren't you a little apprehensive?" "No," was the answer, after due de liberation. "I'm not afraid. You know ladies are naturally timid." Willing to Try. Harold—"Could you learn to love me?" Amelia "No; but I'll try awful hard. Fapa lias promised to seiul me abroad if my health breaks down from overstudy, you know!"— Puck. Bolf-Dopreclatlon. "You oughct to marry a good sensi ble girl," said the friend. "Your advice is paradoxical," an swered AVillle Washington. "How am I to find a sensible girl who is foolish enough to marry me?" Washington Star. Timidity. "Don't yott love children?" "Some children," answered the man who Is slightly bald. "But don't you love children as a rule?" "No. I once taught school. I don't love them. I fear them." Admiration. "You admire your grandfather very much, don't you, my little man?" "Yes," answered the youth. "You think he could do things that no one else could, don't you?" "I know he could. lie used to pun ish father whenever he felt like it." Bruln'tt Affliction. Mr. Bruin—"Doctor, I suffer so ter ribly with Insomnia that I rau't sleep more than two mouths at u time dur ing the winter."—Life. Tlie Model Farm, "Does your son know much about farming?" "I should say he does," answered Farmer Corntossel. "lie says he reck ons lio'll go to town an' make about a million dollars, an' then cum back an' run this farm proper."—Washington Star. All Artistic Achievement. Ethel—"Why, Aunt Emily, this is a lovely photograph of you! What were you thinking of to get such a charm ing expression?" Aunt Emily—"Well, when the photo grapher got me properly posed he for got himself and said: 'Now, look stu pid, please.' "—Detroit Free Press. Varying It. The Damsel—"But til's is sueli a queer, unromantie way to propose to a girl, Mr. Wellup. In the daytime, anil on the way to a suburban train!" The Widower—"! know it, Miss de Muir. I've geuerally proposed whilst takln' a moonlight ride with the gal, but I thought I'd'go anil do it differ ent this time."—Chicago Tribune. , Disappointment. "I suppose you are disappointed be cause the critics condemned your book." "Yes. I don't mind what they said so much as the mean way in which they said It." "They teemed disposed to be mild." "Yes. None of the denunciations were sufficiently violent to attract any attention whatever to the book."— Washington Star. On© Reason For Marrying. Vera is five years old. As a rule she Is a very Joyous little maiden, but one dny she came home from school looking exceedingly pensive. By and by she voiced her woe. "Ob, dear," she said, "I do wish I didn't have to get married." "Well, you don't have to." said her mother, consolingly. For a moment Vera's l'aeo bright ened, but soon the clouds gathered more thickly than ever. L "Oh, yes, I do," she said. "If I stay r' , single everybody will look down on me."—New York Times.
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